Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-08
MISSING LINKS.

waited IN W ashl09 ton territory.
Lots of counterfeit Mexican dollars
are being showed" along the borders.
Over Two thousand persons are en-
camped at the base of Mount Shasta.
Jefferson, Iowa. has thirty men who
have passed the age of four-score and
ten.
Jesse r. Grant is said to be up to his
cars in gold mining speculation Jesse,
may make or break yet.
Judge Hilton has one Of the finest
stables N Saratoga. his collection NUM-
bering tweny-5iN fleet-limbed trotters.
The historic walnut tree at the top
Of the Devils Den. on the battlefield
of Gettysburg, was blown down re-
Gently.
Wilkinson Bears, aged %, is th'
Oldest master mason in Michigan He
lives at Belleyille, and took the sublime
degree in 1871.
Prince Ferdinand whom the mis-
guided Bulgarians chose for their
leader, wears q bracelet on either arm
and parts his hair in the middle.
A bronze fence and gates for the
residence of James Flood, in San Fran
cisco, have Just been completed after
two years labor spent on them.
a successful attempt to make pho
tograph of sunrise from the summit
Of Pixies peak has been made by G. I.
SNYDER, a member Of the signal corps.
Mark Twain does his writing up in
the cupola Of his house at Elmira. He
probably goes mp SO high in order that
his Jokes may not disturb the family.
Addison Cammack, having made
$50, 900 in the last two bear raids on
Wall street, thinks he can now afford
to take fortnights rest at Newport
Mclaughlin, the wealthy Jockey, is
having q successful season He is said
to be worth $4,000. well invested,
and rakes from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year.
a Richmond paper advocates the es-
Enlistment Of a confederate museum
for the preservation of relies of Rob
ert Lee, Stoncwall Jackson, and other
heroes.
Sylvanus Cobb wrote los serial sto-
ries for the New York Ledgcr. They
were all pubiisbcd during his lifetime,
and we have no fears OF post-mortem
deluge from his pen.
y. A. Sawyer, $l,l00 clerk in
Washington, was at one time u United
States senator from South Carolina,
and once filed the position OF Assist
ant Secretary Of the Treasury
Nine hundred aud fifty women in
Iowa own and manage farms. SIX
more have stock farms. and twenty,
dairy farms, The Iowa woman pro-
poses to keep the pot boiling some
way.
At the wedding of an eastern rail
road presidents daughter recently, one
of the presents was Il salad made of
greeubacbs and bank checks. And n
very good dish it was, too, If there
was enough of it.
A London society paper charges that
Buffalo Bill eats peas with a knife.
But that will not destroy his popularity
with the British aristotracy. They
will probably take to eating their peas
with knives, too.
President Cleveland cares nothing
for outdoor occupations except fishing.
Most Of the Presidents were fond of
horseback riding. The notable eXcep-
ton was Fillmore, who, like Cleveland,
came from Buffalo,
John W. Means of Lawrence coun-
tyPennsyh ania, killed a hen recently,
and in her he found an egg which he
placed under sitting hen. The e.
sultant chicken is as lively rs any
other, and has four wings.
Dr.. James +. Love, the Philadelphia
who has for several years been sur
geon-dentist to the Khedive of Egypt,
has just been decorated by his High
ness with the officers star of the I'M
perial Order of the Medjidieh.
A bright new dish-pan and in it a cof-
fee-mill wrapped up in paper were
placed on the sidewalk in front of
Sheboygan grocery. The rays of the
sun were focused by the pan upon the
paper, which took fire, and the mill
was ruined.
The Flicker Pa.) homestead, one of
the Oldest in Berks county, changed
hands recently, and the old residents
are reporting the tradition that in the
stone walls of the barn and house are
inclosed two bottles OF whisky as old
as the century now.
Wooden shoes for children have been
introduced with some success in Lon
don. They are 50 cheap that they
can not be pawned, as leather shoes
frequently are, by the parents Of many
| poor children 70 whom they are given